Is Cheesecake classified as a pie or cake? (with poll)

[chibchakan]

Pie

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Tomato
cheeseCAKE

^

if it's a pie they would say it's a cheese[b\]PIE[/b].

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Pie = dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

Ding Ding Ding!

 

[WobbleWobble]

Cheesecake doesn't always have a crust...

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Tomato
cheeseCAKE

That argument has been put forth, but deemed lacking.

Ex. You park on a driveway. You drive on a parkway.

and apartments are all stuck together.

 

[dman]

I won't answer until someone passes along a slice of Cheesecake factory Brownie HotFudge Sundae Cheesecake.

 

[LordMorpheus]

they call it cheesecake for a reason. Cheesepie just sounds wrong.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: Tomato
cheeseCAKE

 

[jamesave]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: Tomato
cheeseCAKE

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

pumpkin pie doesn't have a pastry cover

 

[CaseTragedy]

who cares if its called cheese"cake"--it has all the properties of a pie.

 

[Grimbones]

Taste test...

cheesecake < feces

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: badmouse
Cheesecake is cheesecake. It has cheese, right? So, the cake part must be right too.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. And yet..

A peanut is indeed a nut....it has an outer shell and.....anyway, back on topic...

Neither, both, one or the other, it's good. Let it be.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
from good eats:
SCENE 2
The Kitchen Table

GUEST: The King (Elvis)

I'd be willing to bet that 9 out of 10 cheesecake failures stem from the fact that cooks expect cheesecake to act like cake. Why wouldn't they? After all it is cheese-cake. But suppose that we could ask for an impartial analysis from someone who'd never even heard of cheesecake. Say, for instance an alien making his first trip to planet earth. [camera pans to Elvis] That does explain a few things, doesn't it?

AB: Um, King. What's that?
TK: That there is pie.

Pie. See what I mean?

AB: What kind of pie would you say?
TK: Huunh. That would require further analysis.
AB: Well, please be my guest.
TK: [takes pie and we hear slurping, burping sounds as if pie is eaten in one bite]
Seeing as how the structural matrix is composed of egg proteins I'd say that's a
[sniff] custard pie.

AB: Custard pie. Thank you. Thank you very much.
TK: [vanishes]

The King has left the planet.
Think about it. Aside, of course, from the crust a basic cheesecake only contains some sugar, vanilla, eggs and dairy. It's a custard no matter how you cut it. In fact the only real difference between a cheese cake and a cream pie is that most of the dairy of acheesecake comes in the form of a soft, smooth, tangy, cow's milk cheese containing no less than 33 percent milk fat and no more than 55 percent moisture known far and wide as cream cheese.

Yep I saw that episode, and Alton is right as usual.

It is a pie in spite of it's common name.

 

[gistech1978]

DP

 

[gistech1978]

intriguing.

i say pie. it has a crust

i think its because cheesepie doesnt sound exactly appetizing.

 

[dbk]

Sure looks like a pie but it's called "-cake". Who the hell decided to call it a "cheesecake"??

 

[RubySoHo]

That there's pie.

 

[nageov3t]

pi

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Cyco

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: badmouse
Cheesecake is cheesecake. It has cheese, right? So, the cake part must be right too.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. And yet..

A peanut is indeed a nut....it has an outer shell and.....anyway, back on topic...

Neither, both, one or the other, it's good. Let it be.

Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes
http://www.peanut-shellers.org/index_files/Legume.htm

Just nit-picking

 

[Acanthus]

its in its own category

just like pudding pie isnt really a pie.

 

[bradruth]

Obviously pie.

 

[Thraxen]

its in its own category

I agree. Pie has a crust, and cheesecake can be with or without a crust. So it's just cheesecake, no pie or cake involved.

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: Tiamat

Originally posted by: Cyco

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: badmouse
Cheesecake is cheesecake. It has cheese, right? So, the cake part must be right too.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. And yet..

A peanut is indeed a nut....it has an outer shell and.....anyway, back on topic...

Neither, both, one or the other, it's good. Let it be.

Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes
http://www.peanut-shellers.org/index_files/Legume.htm

Just nit-picking

Ok...I concede....don't want to hijack anyways...

 

[Shawn]

i call it cheesepie